Pre-Fab Profile Set?

[Dan Shafer]

Did you get a response from anyone else or is it just the two of us?

Dan

On Oct 24, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> This is excellent news. Your server, my server, doesn't matter. If  
> on mine, I can easily set up a password protected forum. Yahoo  
> groups don't have my favor either. We can discuss of the  
> particulars in private.
>
> But I should clarify this. Why password protected? My situation has  
> changed. I have decided to take 6 months off my normal employment  
> (academic) to develop a few projects that I don't have time to  
> develop properly when on a full time job. Open Source development  
> is cool. But quality applications can only be developed when  
> working full time on the projects, at least for the design/pilot/ 
> putting everything together stage. Some applications that meet the  
> specific needs of the academic community never get developed  
> because academic don't have the time and focus to develop fully  
> fledge applications. I had these ideas about 5 years ago, wrote a  
> few utilities for my own use, but never had the opportunity to  
> transform them into tools useful to my community. I am doing it now.
>
> I don't intend to make money from selling these libraries but from  
> selling small but very useful tools to a rather large market  
> (educators, academics, in a $5-$10 the unit model). Until I am  
> ready to distribute these, I prefer to keep my competitive  
> advantage (I start to use buzz word as I am following an  
> entrepreneurship course :) ). All libraries will probably be made  
> available open source once I start getting money to pay back the  
> development costs (no guaranteed salary for 6 months). I am very  
> receptive to the idea of ransomware too (keep it close till you get  
> the development costs back).
>
> Marielle
>
>
>> I'd be up for that, Marielle. I can set up and host a group on one  
>> of my servers if you like or we can go the Yahoo groups route  
>> which several other Rev-related groups have done but which I find  
>> sort of moderately distasteful.
>>
>>
>>> Can we create a working group? I am interested in collaboration  
>>> but not in making everything widely available right now.
>>>
>
>
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